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New threat for peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific regionTue, 31 Mar 2015 10:48:09 -0400http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cb3_1427812528
SonicRecently, the discussion of US missile system deployment
in South Korea cannot calm down in the foreign media.
It became known that the United States are considering
the possibility of placing its Terminal High Altitude Area Defense "THAAD"
designed to shoot down short, medium and intermediate range ballistic missiles in
the Republic of South Korea.
On the 4th of March the representative of
US Pacific Command said that the necessity for such a step is stipulated with
the actions of opponents of the United States that are going to deploy similar
anti-missile systems in these regions. It is noted that the main reason of deployment
of anti-missile system in South Korea is North Korean threat.
Leadership of the Asia-Pacific region as well as the
world community met the plan of Washington to deploy anti-missile system deeply
negative. They do understand the Americans are trying to extend its armed
forces in the Asia-Pacific region.
Although the South Korean government declares that it
hasn't made a final decision about the deployment of THAAD but the threat is
increasing. In the April the seventh round of negotiations between South Korea
and USA will be held. During the negotiations, sides are going to discuss the
details of deployment of anti-missile system THAAD in the South Korea. During
the forthcoming conference Seoul will represent the Head of Defense Policy department
of the Ministry of Defense Ryoo Je-Seung and on the other side will be the Deputy
Secretary of Defense of East Asia affairs David Helvi.
Although, the South Korean authority affirms they
haven't made a final decision about deployment of anti-missile system but
military transports with large-sized cargo from US continue to arrive to the
South Korean ports.
Meanwhile, the United States declare very high
importance of American protection against North Korean nuclear and Russian
threat and fast-developing China and continue setting their military bases and
anti-missile systems around the world.
US President Barack Obama told that the main purpose
for US is to exercise control all over the world. That is the main threat to
the Asia-Pacific region.http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cb3_1427812528SonicNew threat for peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific regionAsia-Pacific region USA THAAD US missile system ROK South Korea military1/3 of Republicans see Obama as more imminent threat than PutinMon, 30 Mar 2015 06:51:51 -0400http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=40e_1427712467
aydeoWashington - A third of Republicans believe US President Barack Obama poses an imminent threat to the United States, outranking concerns about Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar Assad.
A Reuters/Ipsos online poll this month asked 2,809 Americans to rate how much of a threat a list of countries, organizations and individuals posed to the United States on a scale of 1 to 5, with one being no threat and 5 being an imminent threat.
The poll showed 34 percent of Republicans ranked Obama as an imminent threat, ahead of Putin (25 percent), who has been accused of aggression in the Ukraine, and Assad (23 percent). Western governments have alleged that Assad used chlorine gas and barrel bombs on his own citizens.
Given the level of polarization in American politics the results are not that surprising, said Barry Glassner, a sociologist and author of The Culture of Fear: Why Americans are afraid of the wrong things.
"There tends to be a lot of demonizing of the person who is in the office," Glassner said, adding that "fear mongering" by the Republican and Democratic parties would be a mainstay of the US 2016 presidential campaign.
"The TV media here, and American politics, very much trade on fears," he said.
The Ipsos survey, done between March 16 and March 24, included 1,083 Democrats and 1,059 Republicans.
Twenty-seven percent of Republicans saw the Democratic Party as an imminent threat to the United States, and 22 percent of Democrats deemed Republicans to be an imminent threat.
People who were polled were most concerned about threats related to potential terror attacks. Islamic State militants were rated an imminent threat by 58 percent of respondents, and al-Qaida by 43 percent. North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un was viewed as a threat by 34 percent, and Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei by 27 percent.
Cyber attacks were viewed as an imminent threat by 39 percent, and drug trafficking was seen as an imminent threat by a third of the respondents.
Democrats were more concerned about climate change than Republicans, with 33 percent of Democrats rating global warming an imminent threat. Among Republicans, 27 percent said climate change was not a threat at all.
The data was weighted to reflect the US population and has a credibility interval, a measure of accuracy, of plus or minus 2.1 percentage points for all adults (3.4 points for Democrats and 3.4 points for Republicans).http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=40e_1427712467aydeo1/3 of Republicans see Obama as more imminent threat than PutinThird,Republicans,Obama,Imminent,Threat,Putin,AssadFor standing up to Obama, Israel is under fire from the black caucus of the Democrat party Sun, 29 Mar 2015 01:28:42 -0400http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=75b_1427606389
m16carbine"The Congressional Black Caucus is gone," a Democratic congressional aide told 'Newsweek'. Netanyahu's speech was "an affront to America's first black president."
By JPOST.COM STAFF 03/27/2015
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent speech before Congress as well as his controversial campaign comments have infuriated African- American Democrats, Newsweek reported on Friday.
"The Congressional Black Caucus is gone," a Democratic congressional aide told the US news magazine.
Netanyahu's speech - which sought to challenge US President Barack Obama's efforts to broker a nuclear deal with Iran - and his comments ahead of the election that his supporters must vote because "Arabs are voting in droves," has lead many black Democrats to turn their back on the Israeli prime minister.
This reported alienation could effectively kill any chance US lawmakers could submit legislation mandating new Iran sanctions that would have enough supporters to override an Obama veto.
"Bibi ensured there will be no veto-proof majority in the House," a Capitol Hill source told Newsweek.
Congressional hawks are mulling two pieces of legislation against Iran. One sponsored by New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez, a Democrat, and Mark Kirk, a Republican from Illinois, would require a congressional vote of approval for Obama to lift US sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
The other would-be bill pushed by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee would mandate Congressional approval for any agreement reached with Iran. The White House has vowed to veto both pieces of legislation.
Newsweek describes a dramatic encounter between black lawmakers and Israeli officials engaged in damage control after it became apparent that Netanyahu's address was perceived by some as a personal affront to Obama.
One Congressional aide told the news magazine that Rep. James Clyburn, a Democrat from South Carolina, confronted Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (Likud) during a closed-door session on Capitol Hill. According to Newsweek, Clyburn bluntly told Edelstein that Netanyahu's speech was "an affront to America's first black president."
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Netanyahu-has-burned-his-bridges-with-Black-Democrats-395345
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=75b_1427606389m16carbineFor standing up to Obama, Israel is under fire from the black caucus of the Democrat party democrats, black, left-wing, socialist, obama, hussein, muslim brotherhood, nation of islam, democrat, black, caucus, affirmative action, african, affirmative action, iq, president, low, if you want your, you can keep yourUS Declassifies Document Revealing Israel's Nuclear ProgramThu, 26 Mar 2015 15:44:34 -0400http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=71f_1427398977
beesnutsObama revenge for Netanyahu's Congress talk? 1987 report on Israel's top secret nuclear program released in unprecedented move.
Dimona nuclear reactor circa 1960s
National Security Archive/Flash 90In a development that has largely been missed by mainstream media, the Pentagon early last month quietly declassified a Department of Defense top-secret document detailing Israel's nuclear program, a highly covert topic that Israel has never formally announced to avoid a regional nuclear arms race, and which the US until now has respected by remaining silent.
But by publishing the declassified document from 1987, the US reportedly breached the silent agreement to keep quiet on Israel's nuclear powers for the first time ever, detailing the nuclear program in great depth.
The timing of the revelation is highly suspect, given that it came as tensions spiraled out of control between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama ahead of Netanyahu's March 3 address in Congress, in which he warned against the dangers of Iran's nuclear program and how the deal being formed on that program leaves the Islamic regime with nuclear breakout capabilities.
Another highly suspicious aspect of the document is that while the Pentagon saw fit to declassify sections on Israel's sensitive nuclear program, it kept sections on Italy, France, West Germany and other NATOcountries classified, with those sections blocked out in the document.
The 386-page report entitled "Critical Technological Assessment in Israel and NATO Nations" gives a detailed description of how Israel advanced its military technology and developed its nuclear infrastructure and research in the 1970s and 1980s.
Israel is "developing the kind of codes which will enable them to make hydrogen bombs. That is, codes which detail fission and fusion processes on a microscopic and macroscopic level," reveals the report, stating that in the 1980s Israelis were reaching the ability to create bombs considered a thousand times more powerful than atom bombs.
The revelation marks a first in which the US published in a document a description of how Israel attained hydrogen bombs.
The report also notes research laboratories in Israel "are equivalent to our Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore and Oak Ridge National Laboratories," the key labs in developing America's nuclear arsenal.
Israel's nuclear infrastructure is "an almost exact parallel of the capability currently existing at our National Laboratories," it adds.
"As far as nuclear technology is concerned the Israelis are roughly where the U.S. was in the fission weapon field in about 1955 to 1960," the report reveals, noting a time frame just after America tested its first hydrogen bomb.
Institute for Defense Analysis, a federally funded agency operating under the Pentagon, penned the report back in 1987.
Aside from nuclear capabilities, the report revealed Israel at the time had "a totally integrated effort in systems development throughout the nation," with electronic combat all in one "integrated system, not separated systems for the Army, Navy and Air Force." It even acknowledged that in some cases, Israeli military technology "is more advanced than in the U.S."
Declassifying the report comes at a sensitive timing as noted above, and given that the process to have it published was started three years ago, that timing is seen as having been the choice of the American government.
US journalist Grant Smith petitioned to have the report published based on the Freedom of Information Act. Initially the Pentagon took its time answering, leading Smith to sue, and a District Court judge to order the Pentagon to respond to the request.
Smith, who heads the Institute for Research: Middle East Policy, reportedly said he thinks this is the first time the US government has officially confirmed that Israel is a nuclear power, a status that Israel has long been widely known to have despite being undeclared.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/193175http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=71f_1427398977beesnutsUS Declassifies Document Revealing Israel's Nuclear Programlittle, bitch, obama, sells out, our allies, stands, with, terrorists54 Colombia girls sexually abused by immune US military :ReportTue, 24 Mar 2015 14:56:13 -0400http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=373_1427222298
ebolismUS soldiers and military contractors sexually abused more than 54 children in Colombia between 2003 and 2007, according to a recently released historic document on the country's conflict. The suspects have allegedly not been prosecuted due to immunity clauses in bilateral agreements.
The 800-page independent historic report was commissioned by the Colombian government and rebel group FARC to establish the causes and violence aggravators of the 50-year-long conflict they are negotiating to end.
The document is to help negotiators determine who is responsible for the 7 million victims or the armed conflict between leftist rebels and the state while they are negotiating peace.
One of the scholars that helped redact the historians' report, Renan Vega of the Pedagogic University in Bogota, focused part of this historic document on the American military that has actively supported the Colombian state in its fight against drug trafficking and leftist rebel groups like the FARC and ELN.
According to Vega, "there exists abundant information about the sexual violence, in absolute impunity thanks to the bilateral agreements and the diplomatic immunity of United States officials."
In his report, the historian cited one 2004 case in the central Colombian town of Melgar where 53 underage girls were sexually abused by nearby stationed military contractors "who moreover filmed and sold the films as pornographic material."
According to Colombia's leading newspaper, El Tiempo, the victims of the sexual abuse practices were forced to flee the region after their families received death threats.
Other Americans stationed at the Tolemaida Air Base allegedly committed similar crimes, but possibly also never saw a day in court due to an immunity arrangement for American soldiers and military contractors agreed by Washington and Bogota.
One case that has called most attention in Colombian media was that of a 12-year-old who in 2007 was raped by a US Army sergeant and a former US military officer who was working in Melgar as a military contractor.
Colombian prosecutors established that the girl had been drugged and subsequently raped inside the military base by US sergeant Michael J. Coen and defense contractor Cesar Ruiz.
However, prosecution officials were not allowed to arrest the suspected child rapists who were subsequently flown out of the country.
The case has caused major indignation among Colombians for years.
Nevertheless, the rape victim, her little sister and mother were forced to flee Melgar and eventually moved to the city of Medellin as forces loyal to the suspects were threatening the family, the mother told Colombian television.
In 2009, the US embassy in Bogota told Miami newspaper El Nuevo Herald that the US government did not rule out the possibility to reopen the apparently closed case against Coen and Ruiz.
However, according to El Tiempo, no US court has since indicted both suspects for their alleged crime in the six years since.
According to left-leaning news website El Turbion, the case of the 12-year-old girl is not the only one.
"In 2006 there were 23 reported cases of sexual abuse committed by active American soldiers and another 14 in 2007," the website said. Colombia Reports was unable to confirm this claim with other online sources.
However, if this claim is confirmed, there would be more than 90 cases of sexual violence against women and children committed by American soldiers between 2004 and 2007 alone.
According to the governmental National Victims Unit, 7,234 Colombian women have been registered as victims of sex crimes within the context of the conflict in the decades that it has lasted.
While the FARC and the administration of President Juan Manuel Santos are negotiating who is responsible for the 7.2 million registered victims of the country's half-a-century armed conflict, US President Barack Obama sent Special Envoy Bernie Aronson to Colombia to assist in the process.
Aronson has so far met with Santos and, reportedly, with negotiation team members of the FARC and the government, and will be the intermediary between Bogota and Washington.
The special envoy will possibly have to deal with the role of the US military and its members in the alleged victimization of Colombians.
His most difficult task will be balancing the US government's duty of "protecting American interests" - as he was reminded by Tea Party Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) - and trying to "stand by Colombians' side in this journey," as Aronson said himself.http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=373_1427222298ebolism54 Colombia girls sexually abused by immune US military :Report\Colombian girls, sexually abused, US military, kids, raped,US on UNHRC: Continues to single out IsraelSun, 29 Mar 2015 04:15:44 -0400http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a92_1427616255
aydeoThe US sharply criticized the United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday for its biased treatment of Israel.
It was the only country to stand with Israel and to vote against four resolutions that dealt with the Palestinian territories and the Golan Heights.
"We are disappointed that this council continually singles out Israel for criticism without acknowledging the violent attacks directed at its people, nor the obligations and difficult steps required of both sides. In short, such singling out undermines the credibility of the council," said US Ambassador to the UNHRC Keith Harper.
It was the second time last week that he has spoken out in support of the Jewish state at the UNHRC.
On Friday, Harper said he was particularly troubled by the UNHRC resolution, which called on Israel to return the Golan Heights to Syria, in spite of the continued civil war in that country.
"Especially disturbing is this council's complacency with the repeated introduction of a resolution focusing on the Golan Heights," said Harper.
"To consider such a resolution while the Syrian regime continues to slaughter its own citizens by the tens of thousands exemplifies the sheer absurdity of this agenda item."
The resolution slammed Israel for its treatment of Syrians on the Golan Heights and was supported by 29 of the UNHRC's 47-member body, with 17 abstentions. The United States was the only country to vote against the resolution.
The council also voted on three resolutions with regard to the Palestinians as it wrapped up its 28th session on Friday in Geneva. It called for the Palestinian right to self-determination and urged UN bodies to support Palestinian efforts toward statehood recognition.
In addition, in two other resolutions, the UNHRC took Israel to task for human rights violations in the Palestinian territories and for continued settlement building.
It called on Israel to freeze and reverse settlement activity and to withdraw to the pre-1967 lines.
Member states of the UNHRC voiced overwhelming support for these three resolutions on the Palestinian territories, with 45 countries approving two of them and 43 approving the third. Again, only the US voted no on all three resolutions. The European Union in contrast voted in support of all three resolutions.
The resolutions were proposed and voted on under Agenda Item 7. The UNHRC is mandated to set aside Agenda Item 7 at each session for a debate on Israeli actions in the territories. There is no such mandate for any other country.
The US and the EU have opposed the UNHRC's singling out of Israel through Agenda Item 7, but only the US turned its opposition into action on Friday and voted "no" to make a principled point.
Harper said the US is committed to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and believed strongly in the importance of human rights.
The US supports the Palestinians and remains the largest donor country to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees, Harper said.
"We remain troubled, however, by this council's standalone agenda item directed against Israel, and by the many repetitive and one-sided resolutions under that agenda item. None of the world's worst human rights violators, some of whom are the object of resolutions at this session, have their own standalone agenda item at this council.
Only Israel receives such treatment," he said.
Harper issued his statement at a low point in US-Israel relations. President Barack Obama has spoken out against pre-election statements that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made in which Netanyahu said that given the current reality in the Middle East he did not believe a Palestinian state would be created while he was premier.
Netanyahu has since affirmed his commitment to a two-state solution, but Obama has said the US is now reassessing its policies toward the creation of a two-state solution.
The US has warned that as part of that reassessment it might no longer offer Israel automatic support at the Security Council. It is, however, committed to standing with Israel at the UNHRC.
The EU said it believed that voting in favor of the resolutions on the Palestinians would not impact any efforts to resume negotiations.
On Friday, the PLO's ambassador to the UNHRC in Geneva, Ibrahim Khraishi, said the Palestinians wanted to submit a joint resolution with Israel on self-determination.
He also spoke in support of Agenda Item 7, which he said was necessary because Israel is in persistent violation of international law.
"Israel also had to be held accountable for grave violations of human rights and humanitarian law. Foreign occupation is the first and foremost of the violations by Israel," Khraishi said.
Israel did not speak prior to the vote or participate in the debate earlier this week under Agenda Item 7, which like the US, it considers to be a biased mandate that solely singles out Israel.
Under Agenda Item 4, the council passed separate resolutions on the human rights situations in Syria, Iran, Myanmar and North Korea.
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/US-disappointed-UN-rights-council-continues-to-single-out-Israel-395354http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a92_1427616255aydeoUS on UNHRC: Continues to single out IsraelUS,UNHRC,Single out,IsraelObama counter China with employing Indian-Americans to the AdministrationFri, 27 Mar 2015 05:30:11 -0400http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6d8_1427448381
ColomboSerb15 high ranked US official is of Indian-American orgin in Obama administration. Never in the world a nation has employed so many from one single minoritie group to top positions in a Goverment.
The Indian-American positions in the Goverment outnumber both Black-Americans and Latin-Americans in number of High ranked officals.
And more are comming.
USA seams to try counter China/Russia influence with a strong relationship with India in Asian region.
With the naming of Atul Keshap to be appointed as the new US
Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives, Indian Americans would be serving
as US envoys in three of eight SAARC nations.
After Richard Rahul Verma, who is the US ambassador to India, yet
another Indian American was named the country's envoy by President
Barack Obama.
Keshap will be taking over from former US Envoy in Sri Lanka
Ambassador Michele J. Sison who left in December last year after
completing her term as ambassador to take the role of Deputy Ambassador
of the United States in the UN and Security Council of the United
Nations.
"I am honoured that these talented individuals have decided to serve
our country. They bring their years of experience and expertise to this
administration, and I look forward to working with them," said
announcing Keshap's appointment with three others.
Currently as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of
South and Central Asian Affairs, a position he has held since 2013,
Keshap assists Nisha Desai Biswal, the first Indian-American to lead the
bureau.
Now with Keshap's appointment, Indian Americans would be serving as
US envoys in three of eight SAARC nations. Another Indian American,
Puneet Talwar as assistant secretary for political-military affairs,
serves as a bridge between the US State and Defence departments.
And Arun Madhavan Kumar as assistant secretary of commerce and
director general of the US and Foreign Commercial Service is charged
with boosting US trade abroad.
Keshap previously served at the State Department as a US Senior
Official for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation in the Bureau of East
Asian and Pacific Affairs from 2012 to 2013.
Source : http://www.adaderana.lk/news/30283/obama-taps-indian-americans-to-control-asian-region-http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6d8_1427448381ColomboSerbObama counter China with employing Indian-Americans to the AdministrationIndia, America, USA, obamaYemen rebels gained access to secret US files - reportThu, 26 Mar 2015 02:50:20 -0400http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4da_1427352448
AnestheticHouthi Shiite rebels obtained secret Yemeni intelligence documents with details about US-backed counter-terrorism operations, including the names and locations of informants, the Los Angeles Times reported citing American officials.
The documents were stolen when Houthi fighters took over the office of Yemen's National Security Bureau in the country's capital Sanaa, which was closely cooperating with the CIA on various anti-terror missions. US officials claim that some files were given to Iranian advisers.
At the same time, the paper said there is no indication that Houthi rebels had direct control over the US intelligence files.
The compromised files reportedly affected US President Barack Obama's decision to evacuate remaining US personnel from Yemen last weekend, including 1,000 special operations forces. The decision to leave Yemen has crippled America's counter-terrorism operations against Al-Qaeda militants in the area.
READ MORE: US evacuates 'special forces' in Yemen as rebels seize third largest city
The report emerged hours before Saudi Arabia announced it had launched a military operation against Yemeni Houthis, along with nine other states. Saudi warplanes bombed rebel positions in Sanaa, with Houthis claiming dozens of civilian casualties.
Following the start of the Saudi-led offensive, the White House revealed that Washington had close communication with Hadi, the Saudis, and other Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states prior to the launch of the military operation.
It also said that Obama has authorized the provision of logistical and intelligence support to the GCC's military operation in Yemen.
Earlier, Houthi militants claimed capture of the southern seaport of Aden, President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's stronghold. The fighters said the city was under their control and the president's supporters were being arrested.
READ MORE: Saudi Arabia bombs Yemen, launches coalition op against Houthi rebels
The rebels claimed Hadi fled the country, and announced a 20 million riyal (US$100,000) reward for his capture, Lebanon-based Al-Manar TV reported.
Hadi's aide, however, said the president remains at his Aden base and is "in high spirits" following the start of the Saudi-led invasion.
In August 2014, Houthi rebels swept down from their stronghold in the mountains, demanding economic and political reforms. In September, they seized key state installations in Sanaa.
The US embassy last month closed its operations in Sanaa after the Houthis took command of the capital, leading to a situation where two rival governments in the north and south are competing for power. Last weekend, Shiite rebels seized Yemen's third largest city Taiz.
http://rt.com/news/244149-yemen-rebels-us-secret-files/http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4da_1427352448AnestheticYemen rebels gained access to secret US files - reportYemen, USA,HouthisAssad: Number of ISIL Militants Rising Amid Coalition AirstrikesMon, 30 Mar 2015 14:10:31 -0400http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c28_1427738709
UIytauSyrian President Bashar Assad said that the airstrikes conducted by the US-led international coalition against ISIL extremists in Iraq and Syria are ineffective, as the militant group has been recruiting more members since the start of anti-ISIL coalition efforts, Assad told CBS .
"Sometimes you could have local benefit but in general if you want to talk in terms of ISIS actually ISIS has expanded since the beginning of the strikes," Assad said in the CBS interview, which aired on Sunday.
According to the Syrian president, Americans are trying to "sugar coat the situation" by saying that things are getting better in Syria and Iraq as a result of coalition airstrikes, when in reality ISIL has been recruiting more and more people in its ranks.
"Some estimates that they have 1,000 recruits every month in Syria. And Iraq, they are expanding in Libya and many other al Qaeda affiliate organizations have announced their allegiance to ISIS," Assad said.
US President Barack Obama formed an international anti-ISIL coalition in September, 2014. The coalition has been carrying out airstrikes against the extremists in Syria and has continued the strikes that the United States launched against ISIL positions in Iraq in August.
Obama has also promised to help train and arm Kurds, Iraqis and "moderate" Syrian opposition who are fighting against ISIL on the ground, but US involvement in ground military operations against the Sunni radicals has not been authorized.
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) is a jihadist group notorious for its human rights abuses, including multiple kidnappings and killings. In 2014, it took vast territories in Iraq and Syria under control, declaring the establishment of an Islamic caliphate and forcing thousands of people, particularly religious minorities, to flee.
ISIL affiliates also operate in North Africa, Yemen, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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-http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c28_1427738709UIytauAssad: Number of ISIL Militants Rising Amid Coalition AirstrikesTurkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Qatar, Jordan, US, Obama, Erdogan, Assad, Terrorism, ISIS, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Yemen, Al QaedaChechnya threatens to arm Mexico in response to US Congress call for Ukraine lethal aidThu, 26 Mar 2015 08:22:40 -0400http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e62_1427372012
wake_up_neoThe head of the legislature in Russia's Chechnya region says that Russia will provide arms to Mexico if Washington supplies weapons to Ukraine.
Chechen Parliament Speaker Dukvakha Abdurakhmanov said the arms would be aimed at reigniting U.S.-Mexican disputes over "territories annexed by the United States in the American states of California, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and part of Wyoming."
"We will perceive arms shipments to Ukraine as a signal to respond in kind," Abdurakhmanov said in a March 24 statement posted on the Chechen parliament's website.
Abdurakhmanov is a close associate of Ramzan Kadyrov, the Kremlin-backed strongman who rules Chechnya.
Dukvakha Abdurakhmanov:
Prominent U.S. lawmakers have called on U.S. President Barack Obama to supply Ukraine with weapons they say will allow Kyiv to protect its territory against Russian-backed separatists.
The Obama administration has resisted the calls, saying the move could result in greater bloodshed between Ukrainian forces and the separatists in a conflict that has killed more than 6,000 people since April 2014.
Chechens in Ukraine:
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http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e62_1427372012wake_up_neoChechnya threatens to arm Mexico in response to US Congress call for Ukraine lethal aidChechenya, provide, arms, Mexico, Ukraine, warWithout US cover at UN, Israel could face diplomatic avalanche -- Times Of IsraelWed, 25 Mar 2015 17:32:21 -0400http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=af3_1427318062
omniradarhttp://www.timesofisrael.com/left-alone-at-un-israel-can-ignore-but-not-avoid-diplomatic-fallout/
By Raphael Ahren
March 25, 2015, 12:52 pm
It would have been unthinkable just a few short years ago for the White House to consider furling up the diplomatic umbrella it had used for decades to shield Israel at the UN.
But even as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has attempted to do damage control for a series of recent controversial pronouncements, reiterating his support for a two-state solution and apologizing for his election day anti-Arab rhetoric, Washington seemingly remains determined to "reassess" its policy vis-`a-vis Israel and the Palestinians.
Very little, if anything, would change on the ground, but a Security Council resolution calling for a Palestinian state is certain to have severe diplomatic repercussions for Israel, analysts say.
While the administration insists it has made no changes to US policy yet, officials say that President Barack Obama strongly is considering backing Palestinian moves at the United Nations Security Council.
This could mean that Washington will hold back from vetoing a French or Jordanian resolution calling for the creation of a Palestinian state based on the 1967 lines with land swaps.
The US could even propose its own resolution seeking to enshrine the parameters of a future peace deal based on a two-state solution.
No Palestinian flagpoles are going to pop up across the West Bank in the near term, nor will Jerusalem have to fear an immediate barrage of harsh sanctions or other punitive measures as a direct result of a resolution in Turtle Bay.
But a Security Council resolution would signal to the international community that the Americans are no longer interested in providing cover for Israel's desire to maintain the status quo, which is liable to set in motion a diplomatic avalanche that will ultimately weaken Israel's position in negotiations with the Palestinians.
"The symbolism could potentially have some longer-term implications," said international studies professor Stephen Zunes, who coordinates the University of San Francisco's Middle Eastern Studies program.
Washington backing Palestine-related moves at the UN would highlight Israel's isolation even more, which might motivate Israelis to vote for a less hawkish government in the future, surmised Zunes, a known critic of American diplomatic support for Israel.
While no sanctions come automatically with the violation of a Security Council resolution, the administration's putative move at the UN might spur the European Union to start implementing punitive measures, such as labeling West Bank products, which would negatively impact Israel's economy, he said.
Benjamin Netanyahu gives the thumbs-up to supporters at the Likud party headquarters in Tel Aviv, early on March 18, 2015, hours after the TV exit polls were announced for the previous day's elections were published. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
PM Netanyahu at the Likud party headquarters in Tel Aviv, early on March 18, 2015, hours after the TV exit polls were announced for the previous day's elections were published. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
Jerusalem adamantly opposes any Security Council resolution on the Palestinian issue, though it appears few efforts are being made to dissuade the Americans from their ostensible plan to push for one.
Instead, the Netanyahu administration has focused all its efforts at preventing a bad nuclear deal with Iran, a senior Israeli official said Tuesday. Officials in Jerusalem have been arguing that the US administration's threats on the Palestinian front were intended to divert attention from the Iran deal it is currently negotiating.
So far the Americans have only said they would reassess their policy but have not taken any decision, the official argued.
"US policy has always been that peace will be achieved by direct negotiations between the parties. That is the correct policy - there's no other way to achieve peace," said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Israel holds the record in ignoring Security Council resolutions
Things are bad, but they could be even worse. At the end of the day, said Robbie Sabel, a former legal adviser to Israel's Foreign Ministry, any Security Council resolution on Palestine will not be enforceable and therefore Israel doesn't have to worry about immediate concrete reprisals.
It would be different if said resolution were passed under Chapter VII of the UN charter, which deals with threats to world peace or "acts of aggression." But in its entire history, the Security Council has never passed a resolution on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict under Chapter VII and it is virtually guaranteed that the currently discussed draft will be no exception, several international law experts said.
Sanctions imposed on states based on resolutions filed under Chapter VII are binding on all UN member states - for example the sanctions leveled on Iran over its rogue nuclear program. But since this won't be the case with the US-backed Palestine resolution, Jerusalem won't have to confront a concerted international sanctions regime.
However, individual states or bodies such as the EU could independently decided to sanction or boycott Israel.
Any Security Council resolution on the two-state solution would instead be filed under Chapter VI , which exhorts states in conflict with each other to engage in negotiations. Legal scholars argue whether such resolutions are legally binding, but agree that there is no way to enforce them.
The much-dreaded resolution on the two-state solution is therefore not much more than a "political statement," said Sabel, who teaches international law at the Hebrew University. Rather than a Palestinian doomsday weapon heralding Israel's imminent withdrawal from the West Bank, it should be seen as a "non-binding recommendation" on the two parties to negotiate based on the framework provided by the resolution.
Israel is already in v iolation of nearly 100 Security Council resolutions , most of them calling for a withdrawal from occupied territory, so another resolution could easily be added to the list and filed away by Jerusalem.
While there are many other countries that ignore Security Council resolutions (most of them US allies), Israel holds the record, a 2002 study found .
Most well-known among them is Resolution 242 of November 1967, which says that Middle East peace should include the " ithdrawal of Israel armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict."
Other resolutions condemn Israel's annexation of East Jerusalem, though so far there are none that would specify the terms of Israel's withdrawal more concretely.
But drafts being circulated, which the US may let pass, would do exactly that - by explicitly making the 1967 lines the basis for the future border between Israel and Palestine. And that could put a serious dent in Israel's negotiating position, said Dore Gold, a former Israeli ambassador to the UN and close Netanyahu adviser.
"A UN Security Council resolution that explicitly delineated Israel's future borders would first and foremost undermine Israel's bilateral agreement with the Palestinians, that made the future of borders an issue for negotiations and not something that would be imposed from the outside," Gold said.
Dore Gold (Photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)
A Security Council resolution demanding an Israeli withdrawal to the 1967 lines, even with minor land swaps, would contradict the spirit of Resolution 242 , Gold argued.
"It should be stressed that in a 1975 memorandum between the US and Israel, Washington gave assurances that it would vote against any initiative in the Security Council that would alter adversely or change Resolution 242 and 338 'in ways that are incompatible with their original purpose.'"
A US-backed resolution enshrining the Green Line as the base line for a future peace agreement will not change anything on the ground but it will upgrade the Palestinian Authority's negotiation position, said Ilai Saltzman, an Israeli international relations professor currently teaching at Claremont McKenna College in California. "This is a slippery slope. If the Americans will not veto any resolution it opens up a window for additional shifts in US foreign policy."
'It will allow the Palestinians to assume the role of Israel in the late 1940s and 1950s. We'll have a complete reversal of the roles of David and Goliath'
True, Jerusalem will maintain the ability to prevent the de facto establishment of a Palestinian state. But one Security Council resolution on the matter will lead to another, and Israel's violation of all of them will eventually put Israel on a collision course with the entire international community, Saltzman added.
"There will be an accumulative effect of these resolutions and eventually, even if Netanyahu sustains his premiership for the full four years, the pressure will only increase over time," he said.
Israelis are proud that they accepted the UN partition plan of 1947 while the Arabs rejected it, Saltzman said. Israel ignoring a Security Council resolution calling for a two-state solution could undermine that position, he posited.
"It will allow the Palestinians to assume the role of Israel in the late 1940s and 1950s. We will have a complete reversal of the roles of David and Goliath."
More dangerously, Saltzman added, an American willingness to abandon Israel at the UN has the potential to unleash sanctions and penalties from the European Union, which has long considered imposing certain restrictions, especially on goods from the West Bank.
"The international community is very much fed up with the Israeli occupation," he said, and if it the US translated that frustration into policy, "this could seriously undercut European-Israeli relations. Israel will be in a very precarious situation."http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=af3_1427318062omniradarWithout US cover at UN, Israel could face diplomatic avalanche -- Times Of IsraelIsrael, Habitual UN Law Breaker, Palestine, Nutjob, Insane, Cuckoo, Coco For Coco Pops, Tripping, Out Of His Mind, Worlds Craziest Bastard, Lie Of The Year Award: Obama Falsely said his net neutrality plan would not allow any new taxes to be placed on the internetWed, 25 Mar 2015 15:28:06 -0400http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5de_1427306049
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Obama Falsely said his net neutrality plan would not allow any new taxes to be placed on the internet.
Before implementing its net neutrality plan, the Obama administration said the plan did not allow for any new taxes to be placed on the internet. However, after the plan was implemented, the Obama administration said that such taxes were in fact made possible by the plan.
Even before adopting net neutrality, the Obama administration had already proven itself to be incompetent when it came to the internet.
The fact that Obama refuses to allow the public to see his 332 page net neutrality plan until after its implementation was voted on was, by itself, reason enough for any responsible citizen to oppose the plan especially after we saw what happened the last time we passed a bill without reading what was in it (obamascare).
I would think that even the biggest supporters of net neutrality would be curious as to why Obama won't let people see his plan until after it is implemented.
We all by now should understand why the self proclaimed most transparent islaministration in history kept it a secret. There is no doubt this is all about more government control and more taxes on the people.
Slowly but surely we will all begin to realize this fact.
WATCH: FCC Takes over the internet new internet taxes to follow
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WATCH: Net neutrality: FCC and Obama take the internet back to the1930s
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"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them." Patrick Henry
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Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) Chairman Tom Wheeler acknowledged in congressional testimony today that an Internet tax--which he had previously said would not be imposed--could be imposed in the future.
Wheeler's remarks came during a Tuesday appearance before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, where he was asked to shed light on the process by which the FCC passed rules last month regulating the Internet.
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Tom Wheeler (depicted below) is the current and 31st Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and a member of the Democratic Party .
He was appointed by President Barack Hussein Obama (his boss) and confirmed by the Democrat held U.S. Senate in November 2013.
"If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it is, must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify." Alexander Hamilton
Wheeler's admission came after Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) asked him to go on the record with his previous assurances that there would be no new taxes.
(Federal Communications Commisson (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler testifies on Capitol Hill before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on net neutrality).
"Can you guarantee to the American taxpayer, people who use broadband service, that if this goes into effect, that they will not see taxes show up as contributions to the Universal Service Fund (USF)?&quot; DeSantis asked.
Wheeler said: &quot;We have carefully drafted this with two specific things in mind--&quot;
DeSantis interrupted: &quot;Can you guarantee them that they will not pay more?&quot;
Wheeler said: &quot;We have said that this does not trigger universal service, as I said to a previous question.&quot;
DeSantis said: "But that's been disputed. I know that one of your members dissented and said that he believes Title II imposes a statutory obligation ."
Wheeler then said: &quot;We're talking past each other. Let me just be clear, because this is a specific point. That the provision--we have foreborne from the provision that would authorize us, today, in this rulemaking, to do that, to have Universal Service.
"There is a joint federal-state board addressing that very question today,&quot; Wheeler said. &quot;How they resolve things in the future I do not know. But this rulemaking was very clear to say that we do not trigger that," Wheeler testified.
He was referencing the Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service that created in 1996 to administer the USF fund.
"The greatest which could befall submission to a government of unlimited powers." Thomas Jefferson
A fact sheet Wheeler issued about the rules on February 4 stated: "The Order will not impose, suggest or authorize any new taxes or fees--there will be no automatic Universal Service fees applied and the congressional moratorium on Internet taxation applies to broadband."
However, the new FCC rules reclassified Internet Service Providers (ISPs) as Title II utilities, which are normally subjected to a USF fee. The fund is meant to enable the provision of universal service to customers of the utilities that contribute. The commission's decision granted ISPs "forbearance" from the requirement to pay the fee, but it would not protect them from contrary decisions in the future.
In fact, two FCC members warned in dissenting opinions that a new Internet tax was imminent.
Commissioner Michael O'Rielly said that ISPs were only being granted "fauxbearance," while Commissioner Ajit Pai observed that the commission's net neutrality ruling even requested that the federal-state board make a recommendation by April 7th.
"It's no surprise that many have interpreted this referral as a question of how to tax broadband, not whether to do so," Pai wrote .
In an announcement after the hearing, Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) told reporters that the office of the FCC inspector general (IG) would be opening an investigation into the process by which the FCC's net neutrality rules were approved.
Wheeler said he had not been made aware of the IG investigation.
"Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions." James Madison
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